美联社新闻一分钟 2007-07-13

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1. A Bush administration report says the Iraqi government has made mixed progress in fulfill¹ing political, economic and military goals. The president says he is still committed to succeeding in Iraq. A full progress report on Iraq is expected in September.

2. Pakistan's president is vow²ing to crush Islamic extremists like the ones behind an eight-day siege at Islamabad's Red Mosque⁴. More than a hundred people were killed during the siege.

3. Federal officials say a plane that crashed in a Florida neighborhood was not prepared to land. The plane crashed Tuesday near Orlando, killing⁵ five people and destroying two homes. Investigators⁶ say they still don't have an exact cause for the crash.

4. Roy Pearson just won't take "no" for an answer. Pearson is asking a judge to reconsider the 54-million-dollar lawsuit⁷ he filed against a dry cleaner he says lost a pair of his pants. A judge threw out the original lawsuit.


WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. fulfill: transitive verb (fulfil British English;fulfill American English)
if you fulfil a hope, wish, or aim, you achieve the thing that you hoped for, wished for etc

2. committed : adjective
willing to work very hard at something

3. vow: transitive verb
to make a serious promise to yourself or someone else [= promise]

4. siege : countable⁸ or uncountable noun
a situation in which an army or the police surround a place and try to gain control of it or force someone to come out of it

5. lawsuit: countable noun
a problem or complaint that a person or organization brings to a court of law to be settled [= suit]